Writers: You need this. 365 Creative: January 14

If you’re a writer you need Scrivener. (Click the photos below to see them more clearly.)

No, I’m not being paid to say this. I’m saying it because it’s true. I used Word for ages. Years, really (and before Word, Word Perfect!). And it was always basically reliable, perfectly vanilla, did what I needed which wasn’t much aside from collect my words and organize them all pretty in 12 pt. Times New Roman.

Finally! A word processing program for ADD creatives like moi who have files upon files upon files in duplicate and quadruplicate on all manner of hard drive and CD and DVD….finally! A way to organize years of verbiage into not a bazillion but a manageable handful of files!

Scrivener is THE WAY to organize your book, your essays, your recipes…whatever. With it I can make one file, and then within that file make chapters and character sketches and all sorts of notes. There’s even a kickass corkboard view to look over all your virtual Post-Its.

Yes. It really is that cool. And yes. I’m saying this all for free (in fact, I paid [the 45 bucks it cost to download the full version of Scrivener] for the privilege of saying this).

You really have to check it out, and it appears that it’s not just for Mac anymore!